ALL RIGHT, THANKS ERIC. FOR TWO AND A HALF DECADES IT HAS DAZZLED GUESTS BUT NOW ONE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA'SOLOGYEST'S OLDEST DINNER THEATERS, ARABIAN NIGHTS IS CALLING IT QUITS. TOURISTS DON'T WANT TO PAY ENOUGH FOR A QUALITY SHOW, THEY SAY. ARABIAN NIGHTS HAS HOSTED MORE THAN 10,000 SHOWS AT ITS PROPERTY JUST OFF I-4 AND 192 IN KISSIMMEE. AMAKA UBAKA IS LIVE AT ARABIAN NIGHTS. DID THEY MAKE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THEY ARE ACTUALCALLY ACTUALLY CLOSING. NO, THEY DIDN'T. I SPEC TO SEVERAL PEOPLE AFTER TONIGHT'S SHOW. THEY SAY NO SPECIAL ANNOUNCE MANY WAS MADE OF ANY KIND. IN FACT, MANY PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED TO HEAR THE NEWS. CLOSING DOWN IS GOING TO LEAVE MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE WITHOUT A JOB AND MANY FANS LOOKING FOR A NEW MUST-SEE ATTRACTION. IT'S AN EXPERIENCE. SPECIAL EFFECTS, MUSIC, AND THE HORSES. THE HORSES AND TRAINERS, THEY ALL DO THIS AMAZING STUFF. BUT ON JANUARY 1ST, THE LONG RUNNING ARABIAN NIGHTS DINNER SHOW WILL CLOSE ITS DOORS, SHOCKING MANY PEOPLE LINING UP TO WATCH THE SHOW TONIGHT. REALLY SURPRISED BECAUSE IT'S A VERY GOOD SHOW. CASEY GEORGE TRAVELED FROM TAMPA TO SEE THE SHOW. SAYING THE STORY LINE SETS IT APART. THIS KIND OF SHOW, I DID NOT SEE ANYWHERE ELSE. VISITING FROM TORONTO AND SAYS SHE SKIPPED DISNEY TO SEE THIS SHOW AFTER READING REVIEWS ONLINE. CONSISTENTLY LISTED AS SOMETHING THAT IS A MUST-SEE. OWNER MARK MILLER SAYS THIS MUST-SEE ATTRACTION HAS REACHED A POINT WHERE IT CAN NO LONGER SURVIVE IN THE ECONOMY. WE WERE NEVER BUILT TO HAVE THE CHEAPEST TICKET. WE WERE BUILT TO BE THE BEST SHOW. BEFORE THE SHOW CLOSES, FANS SAY THEY WILL TRY TO COME BACK. I WILL SEE WHETHER I CAN COME BEFORE THE 31ST TO SEE ONE MORE TIME. NOW, THE OWN ARE MARK MILLER HASN'T SAID WHAT WILL REPLACE ARABIAN NIGHTS. HE DOES OWN THE BUILDING. AS FOR THE HORSES, SOME GO BACK TO HIS FARM AND THE REST WILL BE SOLD. SHAUN. SO AMAKA, WILL THE MEDIA GET A CHANCE TO SEE THE SHOW ONE

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -

The Arabian Nights Dinner attraction announced on Friday it is closing permanently on New Year's Day after a 25-year run.

The dinner show began on Feb. 29, 1988 and has presented more than 10,000 performances for more than 10 million guests since.

"It has been an honor sharing my passion for the beauty and magic of horses with people from all walks of life over the last 25 years," said owner Mark Miller in a release. "Unfortunately, we have reached a point where the marketplace demands a cheaper product than we can provide."

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Juliana Czempiski, 9, has been to the show before and her family brought her again.

"It's kind of like an adventurous show," said Czempiski. "When the characters go on the horses, they have some kind of fairy tale going on that happens in some fairy tale book that you might not have read."

"It's not something we need to do [today], but it's going to be more obvious at the first of the year," said Miller.

Miller said the market is pushing for lower prices, but they can't.

"We were not ever built to have the cheapest ticket; we were built to be the best show," Miller said.

Friday morning, 224 employees received the news. Miller said he had been hashing out the numbers for a week and realized it was time.

"Me and my family really enjoy the show and I know a lot of people, that are my friends, that pretty much love horses and they'd be sad," Czempiski said.

Her mother, Renata Czempiski, said, "I guess a lot of people are going to miss it and obviously we will."

Arabian Nights is located at 3081 Arabian Nights Boulevard in Kissimmee. It will continue operations and will have its last show on Dec. 31, 2013.

"Our mission now is to present the best possible product for the rest of the year so that the people who have loved us over the years will be able to come back and experience the magic of our show one last time. Then we will be concentrating on how to assist our incredible staff in handling this transition," Miller said.

The building is paid off and Miller said he may find other uses for it. As for the horses, some will be sold, others will go to his farm in Clermont.

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